About Terrain A multimedia cross year exhibition curated by BA (Hons) Art and Design Interdisciplinary students from Leeds College Of Art. This exhibition explores the vision and narrative of a group of artists in response to their current projects in relation to the theme Terrain. Responding to various sites has been a key aspect of this with many artists taking inspiration from locations around Leeds and some from the exhibition space itself. This event is a showcase of what we do and a celebration of our creative community. “ Design evolves in the playground of the Imagination. Action is the body finding all the building blocks to make this happen.” Kerri Butterworth (Project Manager)
“Space, time, journey, pattern, unity, exploration” Matthew Silverstone (Curation) Jade Ellis (Promotions/Marketing/Curation)
Paul Lawrence and Daniel Horsman
Audio Symposium “This project was a collaboration of skills and ideas. The idea was to create a piece of art that could be displayed in a combination of ways; it could be a painting in landscape or portrait; a visual installation or interactive art piece. The function of this piece was to link the past, present and future of vinyl records to produce a unity of sounds to make one new sound.�
Edward Kelly
Triple X Projection, photography, silk screen print
“Topography: noun, the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area. “We arrange, project and promote an image, to our friends and family; yet keep the secret heart to ourselves, a privacy that is never revealed. Yet like the terrain we change subtly. Who are we? A million parts of everyone else? Do we really know?”
Bethany Trunkfield
Erosion Ink, Bleach & water on paper
This piece is inspired by the Industrial Revolution ‘when man met machine’ highlighting the relationship between the man made and natural form. Man created a new environment, which will always be influenced by the decaying effects of modern life. This piece represents the erosion of the smoke filled industrial era.
Chris Winter
Terrain Oil on Canvas
“Living in the Yorkshire countryside, I am surrounded by the source of my inspiration. It is a landscape full of open moors, dry stone walls, big skies and hidden wooded valleys. I work to find abstractions from the detail of texture, to create new forms and to capture the raw energy from this powerful landscape.” “This series simply entitled ‘Terrain’ (Oil on Paper) was made in response to the feeling of frozen ground underfoot, as part of a site specific body of work in which I am attempting to re-create a visual representation of the site without using pictorial documentation.”
Jade Ellis
The body as vessel - the body as object. Wooden wearable installation piece
Work based around aspects of social and personal consciousness. How we see, build and interact with the world around us. The places we live, and the communities we become a part of, to the way we design and shape our world. “The struggle to communicate our internal fluid selves into a tangible format. Tension, individuality and its dividing forces.�
David Rutter
Untitled Wooden board with spray paint and pen.
Representing journey is the main focus of this piece, having explored the architecture and imagery that emerges along Leeds/Liverpool canal. The overcasting background illustrates the murky appearance of the canal’s waters, which works in unison with the contrasting line work. “As an artist my work must show strong visual concepts, as my illustration tends to speak for itself. For this exhibition I have created a large landscape wooden board, which has been built up with a range of medias including inks, spray paint, collage and illustration. I found myself driven by the flow and motion of the canal. The length of the piece signifies the journey along the 127-mile canal, which then spills out to my interacting ideas, which are centered on this notion of terrain. With a mixture of type and illustration, Leeds as a cityscape uses straight edges and flowing lines, making the overall atmosphere of my piece purvey the dirt of an inner city among clean cut organisation of an establishment.””
Sarah Binless
Deviation, Hesitation and Repetition Ink on paper
‘“I’m a magpie. I collect ideas, techniques and materials and I don’t fit into a pigeonhole. I love to layer processes and techniques, combining conceptual elements with craft focused outcomes. In the first year of Art and Design Interdisciplinary, I am never more excited than when I am learning how to make something new. Routes, paths and obstacles. Transitions between spaces, between aware and unaware, familiar and the overlooked. The drawing becomes a process of continual deviation and correction, aberration and compromise. Negotiating the path across the page as we navigate our path through the world.”
Zara Nobel
Swarm A glowing, Perspex invasion
“As a practicing artist and designer, I focus heavily on media; illustration, photography stencil and small multiple creation. Repetition, pattern and line are all vital to my work as well as investigating time consuming, monotonous processes. Exploring man-made vs. machine made pieces has also plated a big part within my current work; I also enjoy investigating and destroying various vintage stereotypes, looking into ideas that go against the grain or norm. “
Kelly Ward
Dark Space Interactive installation , black out curtain, photographic paper, LED light
Whilst being heavily influenced by my current practise and study; of equating non-space with dark space, this selected experiment is all about exploring my interest to how we experience and perceive dark space.�
Gabriella Mann
‘If you step on a bat dropping it will disintegrate’ A1 tracing paper, black mono printing ink. Stop motion film, 1:07 minutes
“At its core I believe my practice to focus on a story. An object’s story; its pre-existence before I set my eyes on it, questioning how it got to be in such a condition. A crack in a wall. A pothole in the road. A chip on a cup. Each shows a sign of a life, the presence of a being, a force upon its natural existence, which has in some way altered its appearance and journey. This alteration drives my ideas, experimenting with materials, exploring further how they can be used and what they can represent in order to re-find, rediscover and reinvent their subconscious.”
Symbolising presence, the tracing paper emulates the fleeting materiality of objects, structures and beings within our own lives. The black ink signifies the influence of time, weather, human touch on the life and death of a physical structure.
Julie Taylor
Metamorphoses Recycled carrier bags Installation
“My work explores the boundaries between two opposing views of the world: the world as an exploitable resource, and the world as an organic ecosystem where everything and everybody within it share an intimate world of mutuality and interdependence.�
Paul Lawrence
Abstract City Structure Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
“This painting is an expression of abstract Industrial pollution, panoptic structures, and hierarchies of power. The effect this Industrialisation is having on the natural environment is another key concern of my work. This all relates to both the design in action brief and my dissertation study.�
Ryan Brown AKA. Unusual Collective
Worn Out pen, wooden board “Currently a third year student studying Art & Design (interdisciplinary) at Leeds College of Art & Design. Hand made art is the passion, so hand made art is what you see. In an age where computers have taken over our art, I aim to produce work that stands out from the norm. No digital prints, nothing commercial and minimal use of computer screens. All made to my own perfection. This piece represents Dystopia and Utopia. It can be read as a thing of beauty and perfection, or as a sign of the corruption in our world.� To break the work down, the circle could either show a feeling of being complete and whole, but could also represent Big Brother and a watchful eye. The triangle is linked to camping, due to it being the basic tent shape. This triangle could also convey the Illuminate, and a government hierarchy. The numbers are linked to the loss of identity, portraying us as numbers, rather than individuals with names.
Matt Silverstone
Untitled Laser cut wood and eched copper
“Reflection through meditative repetition and wanderings about cartography, inducing memory.� Patterns and pathways explored, future adventures imagined.
Kerri Butterworth
Plug In. Switch on. Switch off. 101 strings of electronic components
“An exploration of the interrelationship between the digital and physical world: The effects this relatively new coexistence is having on our bodies, identities and relationships are what I seek to express in my work.” “This project has been inspired by the locations of my site-specific brief, Seagulls and Scrap, my voluntary work with teenagers at the Grafton Centre and my dissertation study. It has culminated in this exhibition, which has bought all three years of our course together to showcase and celebrate what we do.”
Stephanie Bryant
Time and Tide
Video, 10mins 54secs, 2010
This personal project concerned themes relating to time space and identity. I have documented the lifestyles of two sets of grandparents; both lived/currently live on Walney Island, off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness and inhabit their caravan homes. I have attempted to record their attitudes on society, along with their general existence. They mention current issues in politics, however that is contrasted with their lighter, less serious conversations and interests. “I am currently finishing my final year at Leeds College of Art, studying Ba (HONS) Art and Design (Interdisciplinary). I have an interest in the study of people, attachment, identity, space and an intention to develop my own practice through experimental media, crossing over different processes, including 3D work, video and textiles. My work reflects my interest in the moving image, and how it can deliver representation and meaning. I have a passion for working with others and I am currently in collaboration with Rosie Curtis (fellow art and design student), however I enjoy both individual and collaborative projects.�
Saul Pearson
Fades to Black Spray paint on black paper
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Cheryl Huntbach
Small Domestic Incidents’ A4 blank paper, transparencies, tracing paper, metronome, slide projector and piano
Cheryl’s practice involves a discipline incorporating seriality and repetition through ritualised modes of production. She explores diverse notions of drawing across; lo-fi, hand processes and mechanical means of reproduction. She is concerned with pattern, process and obsessive acts of making. This experimental piece is the second, in a new series of site-responsive works. The first piece involved a three-day temporary, wall drawing in Room 326 Hotel Roma Reial, Barcelona 4 – 6th November 2012.
Lilly Van Lennep
Connection Printed Ink using Blue Tac stamps
‘Everyone is approximately six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of “friend of a friend” statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps.’
Will Hammon The Tower
“Tower is a piece based on the Ferrier housing estate, London (demolished in 2012). The large-scale estate was once home to over 2000 people, what was once an ideal utopian living, towards the end of its life became a hot house for crime. The estate stood empty for 3 years before finally being demolished. The Ferrier estate was seen as a template for modern living and aspects of the development were rolled out across the U.K. With the death of this former British utopia, with roads in the sky ‘Tower’ seeks to explore the psychology and effects of condensed living on humanity. The piece sits at 8ft tall imposing the viewer. The new construction begins on the Ferrier estate in 2013, replacing it with double the amount of homes.”
Charlotte Dawson
mini flower box brooch copper , silver , real foliage
“I am a mixed media artist living in York. Since starting to study at Leeds college of Art earlier this year I have being experimenting with a variety of different materials. Working with metal in mainly small proportions has become something that I both enjoy and appreciate. I find a lot of my inspiration in nature often using real foliage in a lot of my prior mixed media pieces. I also love to forage and use found objects where I can. This piece was mainly inspired by the city of Leeds and the feelings I have been experiencing since travelling from York each day. Some times in large cities the greenery can be missing slightly, especially in the busy shopping centres. I want my piece to help people to see we can all have a garden no matter how tiny.�
Saiyme Gultekin
A Chair
Refurbished chair, soil, grass seeds, water
Dedicated to Martin Barker
Sarah Taylor
Re-recognition Binge Interactive Mixed Media
An investigation into relationships between human subconscious and social spaces; how specific geographical areas encompass terrain physically, and metaphorically within community bodies. Looking at the social entity that is the local pub; re-creating common, familiar images, sounds and tastes, in different surroundings/formats to challenge our subconscious to connect with them and explore how senses trigger connections to places, spaces, terrains.
Sophie Gilbert
Home is where the heart is Installation
An instillation based on the intimate relationships between domestic space and memory. “When trying to find the sight of memory in an architectural landscape, one need look no further that the personal memories of home.” ‘Space, Memory and Identity’ (Sara-Jayne parsons)
Natalie Fyfe
Let them eat cake... Video 4.28 minutes sponge cake, sugar paste, food colouring, water
‘I experience a gagging sensation and, still farther down, spasms in the stomach, the belly; and all the organs shrivel up the body, provoke tears and bile, increase heartbeat, cause the forehead and hands to perspire.... I expel myself, I spit myself out, I abject myself within the same motion through which ‘I’ claim to establish myself.’ (Kristeva 1982:3)
Rosephine Carol Fernandes
‘Mannequin’ Drawings projected onto Mannequin
We are all mannequins. We are fashioned and moulded by society, by trends, by advertisements. Idealistic lifestyles on how we should live, what we should wear, where our place in society is; these ideals are constantly projected on to us. “My current work aims to play with and challenge the portrayal of women in advertising and to question if they really do depict women’s place in society and in the everyday.”
Video Reel /Band Reel Michael Barry Music box (2012) 1:11 minutes
‘Music box’ samples a viral video called “SOPHIE DOES 40 PIROUETTES!!!!” and repeats a short segment to make a potentially everlasting pirouette. Abi Sharp Even More triangles Bursting Balloons Inverted Bounce Fairground Lights Bounce
17 secs/14 secs/1.07 secs/20 secs/ 2011/2012 “I am a motion graphic artist with a great desire to work with tactile materials. I enjoy the traditional methods of animation and try to immerse this into a contemporary platform. I am driven by the relationship between music and moving image. I like to make shapes systematically jump around.”
Megan Baker faces 2012
Jade Ellis Series of three video pieces vessel/object/16 seconds/ 1 minute 6 seconds
58 seconds/1 minute 6 seconds/16 seconds
Kerri Butterworth Digital Body 1.01 min This is a stop-motion video that explores the theme of the female body within the digital world. Simulations and stimulation; how has the digital portrayal of women affected female identity?
Video Reel /Band Reel Dita Sramkova River Heals 2.5 Minutes
Fell in love with the dark arches and the fact that it leads to a nice hidden place in the city. As water flows, changes direction and takes and brings from us, it has all become about river, streams, and water and under currants influencing our lives symbolically or literally. Using melted bottles with text inside, the film was projected on the image and merged together to symbolize the natural changes and influence of the area, but perhaps more than that....
Megan Alexandria Bolton #2 (2012)
Natalie Fyfe Roxanne Van Zyl Trench Foot Dancers in Space 2.15 seconds (2012) (2012) 12 seconds
Rachael Forster Spatial Build #3 2012 2 minutes
Daniel Bamford & Luke Ingham WHALES / DANCE Analogue / Digital Video Dream like nostalgia and mindless displays of movement.
Brendan Reilly BRENDAN 2012
‘Man by day. Big boobed Granny by night.’
Contact Information Gabriella Mann
Rosephine Carol Fernandes
Zara Nobel
Sarah Binless
Gab_mann@hotmail.co.uk rosephine.carol@hotmail.com gabriellamann.tumblr.com. rosephinefernandes.wixcom/rosephine zara_olivia@hotmail.co.uk zaraolivi8.wix.com/znoble
sarahbinless@hotmail.com sarahbinless.wordpress.com
nattif@hotmail.co.uk nattif.wix.com/nataliefyfe
kellymward17@gmail.com kellymward17.wix.com/kellyward
Daniel Bamford
Luke Ingham
sbryant1990@hotmail.co.uk www.sbryant1990.wix.com/steph sbryant1990.wix.com/rosieandsteph
Kerri Butterworth
ms92451@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
Natalie Fyfe
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dan.bamford@live.co.uk amaturian@hotmail.co.uk kerributterworth@gmail.com
Sarah Taylor
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Kelly Ward
Stephanie Bryant
Matthew Silverstone
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Saul Pearson
sp109177@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
Daniel Horsman
David Rutter
dh91930@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
Edward Kelly
bt94823@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
Michael Barry
unusualcollective@hotmail.com
Jade Ellis
ladycricket@live.co.uk
cw95983@students.leeds-art.ac.uk chrisdentonwinter.wordpress.com
rachaelforster24@gmail.com
sg91805@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
sharp_abi@yahoo.co.uk cargocollective.com/abis
mb102628@students.leeds-art.ac.uk
davidrutter_@hotmail.com edlount@gmail.com
michaelbarry1992@icloud.com
Rachel Forster Abi Sharp
Julie Taylor
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Beth Trunkfield Ryan brown
Chris Winter
Sophie Gilbert Megan Bolton
Roxanne Van Zyl
rv82613@students.leeds-art.ac.uk